Reply #1: Tell me about it. (long anti-hypocritic oath rant) [View All]

[Jamastiene]

I've got a personal reason for believing that too. I'm a victim of a health care system that just doesn't care. I have to beg to get my high blood pressue prescription renewed because I don't have any medical insurance. Apparently, because I'm a single female with no children, I am not allowed to get medicaid or any other help for that matter. I was born with spina bifida and in the last few years I've had to suffer with backaches, headaches, and what I believe is severe pmdd with no hope of getting any of it treated. My mother did send me to get a massage from a chiropractors office 2 years ago as a birthday present. When the woman got to my lower back I almost jumped off the table. She said it was probably my kidneys and started checking ever so gently to see if she could feel anything wrong with my spine just to be sure it wasn't my kidneys. First she checked where my kidneys are apparently located. No pain. Then she checked the spine itself. Guess what? It wasn't my kidneys. She felt extreme tension in my back due to a couple of slipped disks. Apparently, those years working with the dog groomer fucked my back all up. She said I should see the chiropractor right away. As if. I can't afford a doctor. I have to try to ask questions to my regular md the one time a year I go without raising too many alarms to keep the cost down so I can afford to pay him. I'm so screwed. Right now the pain has reached a crescendo. I can only try sitting or laying in different positions when it happens to ease the pain. No decent medicine or medical care for me. And I better not miss a single day of a job or school for the pain, because I have no real medical excuse because I can't pay the doctor for "real" tests to prove it.

An awful lot of doctors, nurses, shrinks (don't even get me started on the profession that the nazis "advanced" so much), and the like just gripe my ass. They lie to you about pain and can't seem to understand what pain is. I wish more of them would try to understand what pain is before they brush you off. If I had only had an unlimited supply of cash to pay them, I may get treatment and feel a little better. That leads me to the biggest problem I see with them.

Money. $. Moolah. $5.00 for a QTip if you use one while you are in the hospital. $3.00 for a single piece of peppermint candy. $80.00 just to check my high blood pressure, which is something I do all the time myself for free, and tell me yep, the medicine seems to be working. Great. What bullshit. I'm disgusted.

Whoever says it's a topic we should hold every congressman's and every senator's most delicate soft tissues betwixt the legs to the fire on, is absolutely correct. I couldn't agree more. As a matter of fact, I say let's not only hold them to the fire, but give them a sharp twist if they start feeding us more of that "it's the malpractice insurance" excuse. No more excuses. Get something done about it or I break out the roast beef slicer. And trust me, you don't wanna know...